The 1993 Australian Open was a
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...
tournament played on
outdoor hard courts at
Flinders Park in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a me ...
in
Victoria in Australia. It was the 81st edition of the Australian Open and was held from 18 through 31 January 1993.
Seniors
Men's singles
Jim Courier
James Spencer "Jim" Courier (born August 17, 1970) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. He won four major singles titles, two at the French Open and two at the Australian Open. He was the youngest man to reach the singles finals o ...
defeated
Stefan Edberg
Stefan Bengt Edberg (; born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 19 ...
6–2, 6–1, 2–6, 7–5
* It was Courier's 4th and last career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Australian Open title.
Women's singles
Monica Seles
Monica Seles (; hu, Széles Mónika, ; sr, Моника Селеш, Monika Seleš; born December 2, 1973) is a retired professional tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. A former world No. 1, she won nine Grand Sla ...
defeated
Steffi Graf 4–6, 6–3, 6–2
* It was Seles' 8th career Grand Slam title and her 3rd Australian Open title.
Men's doubles
Danie Visser /
Laurie Warder defeated
John Fitzgerald /
Anders Järryd 6–4, 6–3, 6–4
* It was Visser's 3rd and last career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Australian Open title. It was Warder's only career Grand Slam title.
Women's doubles
Gigi Fernández
Beatriz "Gigi" Fernández (born February 22, 1964) is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player.
Fernández won 17 major doubles titles and two Olympic gold medals representing the United States, and reached the world No. 1 ranking in d ...
/
Natasha Zvereva
Natallia Marataŭna Zvierava ( be, Наталля Маратаўна Зверава; russian: Наталья Маратовна Зверева, Natalia Maratovna Zvereva; born 16 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Belarus. ...
defeated
Pam Shriver /
Elizabeth Smylie 6–4, 6–3
* It was Fernández's 7th career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian Open title. It was Zvereva's 7th career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian Open title.
Mixed doubles
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario /
Todd Woodbridge defeated
Zina Garrison-Jackson
Zina Lynna Garrison (born November 16, 1963) is an American former professional tennis player. Garrison was the runner-up in singles at the 1990 Wimbledon Championships, a three-time major mixed doubles champion, and an Olympic gold and bronze ...
/
Rick Leach 7–5, 6–4
* It was Sánchez Vicario's 5th career Grand Slam title and her 2nd Australian Open title. It was Woodbridge's 3rd career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Australian Open title.
Juniors
Boys' singles
James Baily
James Baily (born 1 February 1975) is a British former professional tennis player who won the boys' singles title at the 1993 Australian Open.
Biography
Born in Portsmouth, Baily is originally from Curbridge, a village in Hampshire.
At the 1 ...
defeated
Steven Downs 6–3, 6–2
Girls' singles
Heike Rusch defeated
Andrea Glass 6–1, 6–2
Boys' doubles
Lars Rehmann /
Christian Tambue defeated
Scott Humphries /
Jimmy Jackson 6–7, 7–5, 6–2
Girls' doubles
Joana Manta /
Ludmila Richterová defeated
Åsa Carlsson /
Cătălina Cristea 6–3, 6–2
Prize money
Total prize money for the event was A$6,455,000.
References
External links
Australian Open official website
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1993 in Australian tennis
January 1993 sports events in Australia
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